Name for this silverplate Reed Barton spoons/forks set

Getting ready to list. What would this set have been used for? Thanks.

 

That's 'Harlequin', the serving pieces were a 1960s-70s reissue - can post an ad for them in a few minutes, believe it names their purposes...

~Cheryl

 

Harlequin, issued in silverplate in 1970 (originally in sterling 1958.)

https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/SPPatterns/ReedBarton2.html

May have been just these pieces as a "hostess" set or "completer set."

 

Thanks Cheryl, and Bakers. You guys are fast.

Finding it on Ebay now, maybe called a "condiment" set. Not sure it if this is exactly the same, but close. Looks like I'm missing one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Reed-Barto...967850?hash=item3b1907202a:g:C~QAAOSwYWJbbKoh

 

I just love stuff like this. Condiments, anyone?

 

A few more silverplate questions forthcoming today. Stay tuned...

(Will start new post.)

 

I emailed Mitch at sterlingflatwarefashions.com years ago with the correct information on this pattern, and had to dig into my files to get the info again - the patents for the original eight designs were issued in late 1892, and introduced in sterling as 'Harlequin Floral Sets' of tea and coffee/demitasse spoons (the 'Harlequin' referring to each piece being different but complementary), a few other pieces were also produced. It was later reissued in the '40s in boxed sets of 8 sterling coffee spoons, the silverplate serving pieces were introduced in 1964 and sold at least into the early '80s - they were actually sold as 'Fiesta party sets' in boxed sets of 4 or 5 (the other piece in the sets was a cream ladle), but 'Harlequin' is the name that's usually applied to the pattern (there were at one point, later sterling versions of the serving pieces made, can remember seeing them, want to say '80s-'90s...)

~Cheryl

1980 ad for your set:

 

1893 ad for the original series (pieces marked with the R&B eagle/R/lion):


1948 insert for the boxed reissues (marked with sans-serif 'REED & BARTON):


~Cheryl

 

Amazing, Cheryl. I guess I have a complete set with 4. Can't believe you found that.

So interesting to see the ad. Thank you!

 

Heh, I have a folder full of Harlequin stuff, that 1980 ad is the latest one I have...

~Cheryl

 

The modern silverplate set is five peices

 

Was looking at Cheryl's posted ad with the exact same 4 under "Find of the Week". Lemon fork, jelly server, olive fork, and bourbon scoop. Thinking mine is from the era of that ad so was thinking I had that same set.

BTW, what is a bourbon scoop?

 

You mean bonbon, right?

 

The mind plays tricks...

 

For a second there I wondered if it was autocorrect.

 

My mind auto-corrected it for me.